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Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor

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642 points scalewithlee | 1 comments | 25 Apr 25 13:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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wglb ◴[25 Apr 25 15:29 UTC] No.43794621[source]▶
The problem with WAF is discussed in https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/731-sp04/readings/Ptacek-N....

One of the authors of the paper has said "WAFs are just speed bump to a determined attacker."

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1. chrisjj ◴[26 Apr 25 19:31 UTC] No.43806407[source]▶
> "WAFs are just speed bump to a determined attacker."

We wish. Speed bumps don't totally immobilise a pseudo-random selection of innocent vehicles.